You may not know it, but right now there's a huge cosmic rave party happening far, far above our heads. The chief party goers are known as supermassive black holes. These mysterious objects can have ...

Researchers at the Large Hadron Collider tested whether top quarks, the most massive known elementary particles, comply with ...

Astronomers have discovered two strange objects that could be young stars — except they're completely surrounded by ice.

Astronomers have traced two mysterious fast radio bursts from space to wildly different places, which suggests the phenomenon ...

Scientists used the most massive fundamental particles to break special relativity, but even that didn’t work.

The project, called OpenUniverse, relied on the now-retired Theta supercomputer at the DOE’s (Department of Energy’s) Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois. The supercomputer accomplished a process ...

Another big element of AI getting stronger is systems becoming better able to remember what they experienced in the past.

NEW YORK (AP) — Scientists have detected cosmic waves that sound like birds chirping in an unexpected place. These bursts of ...

Adam Leroy, a professor of astronomy at The Ohio State University, has been named the recipient of the 2025 Henry Draper Medal.

Like stretch marks left on skin that expanded too quickly or cracks embedded in freezing ice, cosmic strings are artifacts of ...

Please join the Lowell Center for Space Science and Technology on Thursday, January 30 at 11 a.m. for a virtual talk by Cecilia Garraffo, Ph.D. Abstract: The next wave of astronomical data is set to ...

Scientists have confirmed the space around us appears to be growing faster than physics can explain, based off precise ...